3,580 Quotes About Failure




  • Author Laurence Sterne
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    The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

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  • Author Maria Semple
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    I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

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  • Author Mark Short
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    It's been great for our community. We've been going through some tough times, with a levy failure and some other things. So this is a great time for these kids.

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  • Author May Sarton
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    Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing ...

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